06-15-2015, 10:58 PM
I was thinking about that as well when I posted it. For legitimate trims it works fine. But when I wanted to introduce a sporty and comfy version of the same car I was a bit baffled one took a year, the other one 2 months. I try to restrain myself, but when a really lucrative contract comes up and I don't have a vehicle that matches the demands that's though... O:-)
One idea would be that you have to develop a prototype first, which already has some influence on the image of the production trim you'll base off it. You could make an all zero's prototype, but even if you would put all the sliders to 100 your production trims would have a rather poor image compared to their actual value.
Of course you could than build really cool prototype and than make mundane production trims of it that still profit from that image, but that's what real car companies do all the time, so hardly an exploit, just marketing. ;-)
One idea would be that you have to develop a prototype first, which already has some influence on the image of the production trim you'll base off it. You could make an all zero's prototype, but even if you would put all the sliders to 100 your production trims would have a rather poor image compared to their actual value.
Of course you could than build really cool prototype and than make mundane production trims of it that still profit from that image, but that's what real car companies do all the time, so hardly an exploit, just marketing. ;-)